Ground frozen; sun came out bright and warm, speedily
thawing all snow. Company C and four wagons carry all the “plunder” of the
company and the adjutant's office to Raleigh.
P. M. A glorious ride to the scenery of New River at and
about Long Point; a rapid ride back; Doctors McCurdy, Twenty-third, and Potter,
Thirtieth, Lieutenant-Colonel Jones, and Adjutant-General Hunter for
companions. How the blood leaps and thrills through the veins as we race over
the hills! Physical enjoyments of this sort are worth a war. How the manly,
generous, brave side of our people is growing! With all its evils war has its
glorious compensations.
News by telegraph this evening very meagre. A fine,
affectionate letter from my dear wife, written last Sunday. She is so
distressed at my absence but would not have me do otherwise.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and
Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 204
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